McCain-Obama #2 Debate open-thread, live-blog, poll and post-debate podcast
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What does McCain have to do tonight to win? What about Obama?
Is this is a make or break for either candidate?
Is bringing up Bill Ayers’ association with Obama a wise move? What about Obama going after McCain regarding the Keating Five?
Should McCain hammer home that it was Democrats who caused the instability in the markets based on Fannie and Freddie? Or, should Obama blame McCain for voting with the Bush administration 90% of the time during which the crisis occurred?
We’ll do a live-blog of the debate right here. Hopefully some of my colleagues will join me. Feel free to chime in yourself.
Consider this post your pre-game tailgate and front-row seat to tonight’s main event.
Also, we’ll have a poll up regarding the winner of the debate here too. So please check back and vote!
Also - please join us on Thursday for “Virginia Politics On-Demand” on BlogTalkRadio for our live discussion with Gov. Jim Gilmore. The governor will be with us for the first forty minutes of the show and will take your calls.
Live Blog:
Loading ...Danae, Jason and Jim also share their thoughts in this post-debate podcast (caution, McCain ideologues…it’s not what you want to hear):
VPOD: Post Presidential Debate Reaction, Oct. 10, 2008 [16:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (99)
McCain needs a strong performance and a win tonight to stay competitive. If it is perceived that Obama wins, McCain’s candidacy is sunk. Everyone’s focus is on the economy right now, and the public seems to be blaming the Republicans for the mess we are in. McCain needs to find a way to make the economy his issue. Earmarks aren’t going to do it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Obama’s economic advisors need to make an appearance tonight, but McCain’s got to have more to say about the economy than that. Obama’s desire to greatly grow gov’t. spending can help if McCain plays his cards right.
Maybe it is just me, and maybe he cannot mention Anwar cos of his position on this issue, but why doesn’t he or Palin answer the Democrat’s charge that it will take 10 years to get oil with if we had listened to Bush almost 8 years ago, we would only be a couple of years from increasing our domestic supplies? Wouldn’t this score points by showing how wrong the Dems have been on energy and shift some blame to them for high gas prices and inflation? A maverick can change his mind, can’t he? And W. can be right on at least one issue, can’t he?
Duck,
I agree with you. McCain needs to “say” something. Not vague talking points, but real responses on what exactly he’ll do to fix the economy, decrease our dependence on imported energy and what he’ll do to improve foreign relations (as we’re seeing in the foreign markets, we aren’t going to make all by ourselves).
But if he devotes too much time laying blame on the Dems he’ll lose.
The American public is sick and tired of poli-speak and pointing fingers. They may not be genius’, and as long as they could pay their bills they’d ignore business as usual in Washington, but those days are over. They want real solutions and they’re smart enough to know bullshit when they hear it.
Some of the liberal blogosphere commenting on the fact that it looked like McCain left Obama hangin on the handshake attempt after the debate. Anyone catch that? I’m assuming there may have been more than one video feed.
Are they pointing that out after they ramble about focusing on issues and substance? Just curious
While neither candidate positioned themselves ahead of the other in policy or clarity in their position, with perhaps the exception of Obama and his tax plan; Obama seemed to be able to handle the debate format better than McCain, making his performance the winning factor in this debate.
SW, we expect our candidates to focus on issues and substance. We however thrive on trivialities
My expectations for Obama must be too high. That’s twice now that, as an Obama supporter, I’ve thought McCain won (though this time by not as much) but the polls seem to show most Americans thought Obama did better.
What was that idiotic “plan” Senator McCain dropped on us last night?
Did i hear him correctly? Is Senator McCain nowpromising to blow another $300B to nationalize bad mortgages for folks facing foreclosure????! Great – so now we get our Hobson’s choice of Socialist-lite (McCain) or full blown Socialists (Obama) – take your pick …
Exactly WHERE in the Constitution is HEALTH CARE a “right”?
Talk about a missed opportunity – why didn’t John McCain ask Barack Obama THAT question last night? Once they bullied the moderator into allow rebuttals, everything was fair game as far as the format went.
Instead Senator McCaimn babbled on about some nonsensical ‘moral responsibility’ (or some other pandering blather) for the Federal government to provide healthcare to everyone!
By what authority does the President of the United States have the power to use Federal tax dollars to spend on an unconstitutional acts such as buying privatelo owned mortgages using tax funds and then lowering the principal so that people can afford a house they bought (but could not really afford) or the authority for spending billions to provide HEALTH CARE to everyone?
It is incredible that no one is pointing this out today . . . Folks, the Constitution limits the powers of the Federal government. Why do these two bozos feel they can ignore the Constitution and suddenly invent new “Rights” in oder to buy votes?
Reid,
Because for the last eight years Bush has set the president with hundreds of Presedential decrees blowing the Constitution to bits.
I didn’t hear one republican complain that Bush and Cheney were amassing too much power.
I don’t think who ever gets elected is going to give that power away now that it’s theirs.
We are well and truely screwed.
Not even a week after the president election the blond topblogger from Sweden, Linda Ekholm speaks out loud about Obama!
And I really believe this is truly written by heart. Scary!
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